Ecclesiastes 1

Tree of Life Version

² Futile! Futile! says Kohelet.
Completely meaningless!
Everything is futile!^[b]
3 What does a person gain in all his labor
    that he toils under the sun?
⁴ A generation comes, and a generation goes,
but the earth remains forever.
⁵ The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to the place it rises.
⁶ The wind goes toward the south,
and circles around to the north.
Round and round it swirls about,
ever returning to its circuits.
⁷ All the rivers flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
    there they go again.
⁸ All things are wearisome.
    No one can express them.
The eye is never satisfied with seeing,
    nor the ear filled with hearing.
⁹ What has been is what will be,
and what has been done will be done again.
There is nothing new under the sun.
¹⁰ Is there anything about which is said,
“Look! This is new!”?
It was already here long ago,
    in the ages long before us.
¹¹ There is no remembrance for former things,
    and things yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.